Willy-nilly (idiom)
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title:
Willy-nilly (idiom)
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Willy-nilly is an English-language idiom and a slang which describes an activity, an action or event that is done in a disorganized, unplanned, or vacillating manner. The term is derived from Shakespearian expression "will ye, nill ye", which is a contraction that means “whether one wants to or not.” It has a very similar meaning to other reduplicates, that also pertain to 'disorderly' and 'disorganized', such as pell-mell, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry and higgledy-piggledy, all originating in t
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description:
English slang for unplanned or haphazard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy-nilly_(idiom)
date created:
2023-09-14T11:26:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T08:46:58Z
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